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La Vega, a city in the central Dominican Republic, was founded in 1495 by Batholomew Columbus at the foot of a fortress built by Christopher Columbus in 1494, which intended to guard the route to the interior gold deposits of the Cibao valley. A Spanish settlement called Concepción de la Vega gradually grew around the fort. [5]
Dominican Republic carnival of La Vega. An event that strengthened the economic development of the area was the inauguration of the railway between the port of Las Cañitas (Sánchez) and the city of La Vega, the product of the efforts of the worthy Gregorio Rivas. The transport by this means of fruits and merchandise led to new living conditions.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
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Los Ríos is a sector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. It was founded by ex-president Joaquin Balaguer. Los Ríos is in particular populated by individuals from the middle class and upper class. This sector is made up of several districts such as Barrio Azul, Jarro Sucio, Los Multi, Las 8Cienta ...
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Miramar is a sector or neighborhood in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. This neighborhood is in particular populated by individuals from the upper middle class .
San Carlos or San Carlos de Tenerife is a Sector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. This old neighborhood is populated in particular by individuals from the lower middle class. The village of San Carlos de Tenerife was founded in 1684 by Canary Islanders. [1]